Senior RCN Officer

at  RCN

THE PERSON

What we offer you We expect you to look after our members. And we expect you to be rewarded for it. We offer an impressive range of benefits, a broad range of learning development opportunities and an award-winning health and wellbeing programme. We offer annual leave up to 32 days plus bank holidays and three additional days for the Christmas break plus generous maternity, adoption, paternity, and shared parental leave packages. *We offer a competitive pay structure with annual pay progression until you reach the top of the salary scale. We normally offer new employees the first point of the salary range, although you may be able to negotiate a higher starting salary depending on your skills, experience and current salary. We are a diverse organisation and understand everyone has different needs and many of our employees enjoy flexible working enabling them to deliver results whilst having a good work life balance. Our hybrid working model allows for up to 60% of your working time to be carried out from home. At least 40% of your working time will be spent working in person.

Senior RCN Officer RCN Wales HQ (Cardiff), 35 hours, fixed term until 31 December 2025 (maternity cover) Salary range per annum: £66,909 – 75,492* Imagine being faced with a world of exciting possibilities that could ultimately enable you to support our members and help shape the health policies of the future. As the UK’s largest trade union and professional body for nursing, we support close to half a million members with unwavering loyalty and total commitment. We represent and develop them, support their practice and lobby on their behalf to make a positive difference to their working lives. As a Senior RCN Officer, you’ll use your positive attitude, your knowledge of employment relations, your ability to deliver your skills in influencing for change and engaging with, and on behalf of, RCN members, to protect and improve the pay, terms, and conditions of their employment. We’re accredited with Investors in People Silver Standard. Our people are our greatest asset, and we want people who can contribute to our purpose in line with our values. It’s a job full of possibilities, you could get involved in anything to develop and deliver RCN services in Wales across a range of sectors. We’ll look to you to coordinate opportunities and responses to consultations. You will plan and coordinate / implement necessary actions to ensure that RCN members and staff are fully supported as changes to pay, terms and conditions are negotiated and come into place, it’s a great way to build your knowledge of our work and develop your potential. You will lead a team of Officers ensuring excellent member experience in relation to case management and will undertake an essential role in being a critical friend to a number of NHS organisations providing challenge and ensuring members voices are heard. To join us you’ll need to be a passionate professional who has ambition for change in support of RCN members. We’re seeking an individual experienced in strategic working, at a senior level, with trade unions, employers, employer organisations and statutory bodies. You’ll be expert in working with a wide range of stakeholders. You will bring a deep understanding and knowledge of nursing employment relations issues. The ability to foster strong professional relationships and encourage close collaboration between internal and external stakeholders is at the heart of this role. Whatever your background, you’ll be efficient, accurate and show a real member focus in all you do. To succeed at the Royal College of Nursing all you need to do is think bigger, better and brighter. And with an attitude like that, anything’s possible.